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title: She had not a button--that she knew right well, and therefore she re… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had not a button--that she knew right well, and therefore she remained standing sorrowfully outside, till all the others had seen the grave and had gone away; then she sat down, held her little brown hands before her eyes, and burst into tears; this girl alone had not seen Puggie's grave. Who ac
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 27

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She had not a button--that she knew right well, and therefore she remained standing sorrowfully outside, till all the others had seen the grave and had gone away; then she sat down, held her little brown hands before her eyes, and burst into tears; this girl alone had not seen Puggie's grave.

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**Who acts:** girl, others · **What happens:** have, know, remain, stand, see, go away · **To what, where:** button, grave, little brown hands, eyes, tears, girl

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:47:27
# text = She had not a button--that she knew right well, and therefore she remained standing sorrowfully outside, till all the others had seen the grave and had gone away; then she sat down, held her little brown hands before her eyes, and burst into tears; this girl alone had not seen Puggie's grave.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
18	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
37	down	down	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
44	before	before	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
53	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
59	Puggie	Puggie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	's	's	PART	POS	_	59	case	_	_
61	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | girl | a button |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **remain** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | all others | the grave |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grave=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go away** | past · perfect | all others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sit down** | past | girl |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **hold** | past | girl *not said here* | girl's little brown hands |  | girl's eyes |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme before eye=Location |
| 9 | **burst** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | this girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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